UNDIFFERENTIATED (EMBRYONAL) SARCOMA OF THE LIVER

Abstract
A 10-yr-old girl with undifferentiated (embryonal) sarcoma of the liver reported here had abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and weakness when she was 8 yr old. Chemical analyses of the blood and urine were normal. Serum .alpha.-fetoprotein was within normal limits. She died of cachexia 1 yr and 8 mo. after the onset of symptoms. Autopsy showed a huge tumor mass in the liver and a few matastatic nodules in the lungs, which were consistent histologically with undifferentiated sarcoma of the liver. This is the 2nd known case of hepatic undifferentiated sarcoma of children in Japan.